About Transit Unlimited

Welcome to the Transit Unlimited Wiki. This wiki is a guide to all buses, trains, ferries, and more to help people travel independently without automobiles.

By presenting a consistent interface, this wiki fills in the gaps left by the official transit web sites. It complements transit trip planner with information and knowledge experienced riders have picked up along the way.

Contents

Guiding principles

Avoid technical and confusing terms. There's no need to say "light-rail vehicle" when "train" works just fine.

Never contradict a transit agency unless their information is misleading or false.

Providing details useful for new riders that savvy riders take for granted.

This is not Wikipedia. That means the information on this site does not have to meet the standards set by Wikipedia. Also, this Wiki should not follow the formatting commonly found in Wikipedia articles.

List of transit routes serving that hub, along with information on available amenities along with bike and automobile parking. Real time transit arrival information is available for agencies that provide such service via API.

Transit routes (bus, rail, ferry)

Links to schedules, maps, fares, and a list of points of interests and transportation hubs served.

Transit routes suitable for the wiki

Services included should be open to the public and can be used for trips in lieu of automobiles.

Services should be included in wiki

Services that aren't so suitable

✓ Fixed route urban transit

✓ Flex (deviated fixed) transit route

✓ General public dial-a-ride

✓ Open-to-public shuttle that serve transit hubs

✓ Intercity bus

✓ Scheduled airport bus/shuttle

✓ Limited fixed route service to special events(considered to be charter bus under Federal regulations)

Service may be provided by public agencies, non-profit groups, or private companies.

✗ Yellow school bus

✗ Services limited to seniors, disabled, or clients of certain social service.

✗ Parking lot shuttle

✗ Shuttle strictly for a company's employee

✗ Hotel shuttle and rental car shuttle

✗ Door to door on-demand airport van

✗ Charter service (service that require user to reserve the entire vehicle)

✗ Tour/sightseeing bus

How can you get involved?

This wiki is looking for contributors for this Wiki, especially if you have programming skills and/or transit savvy. For now, only registered users can edit this site.

If you work for a transit agency or a private provider, please let User:Andy know if you find something needs to be changed or added. Although most information comes from the web, some transit information are not available on the internet can only be verified by being on-the-ground.

Please see the help section if you want to get started on editing. The most important part is the Semantic features section, because this wiki is highly depend on Semantic Mediawiki and its ability to query information.